1920s and Great Depression Review
Know the significance of these terms and concepts
1. Model-T and Consumer Spending; Credit (Buy Now, pay later)
2. Prohibition (18th Amendment) Why was it started? Why did it fail? (Speak Easies, Boot Leggers, Al Capone
3. Reaction and Intolerance: RED SCARE, Fundamentalism, Scopes Trials, Immigration Restrictions, The KKK
(D.W. Griffith’s, Birth of A Nation, Xenophobia, Direct Marketing of HATE)
4. The Roaring Twenties, Harding (Return to Normalcy, Tea Pot Dome Scandal)
5. Coolidge (Silent Cal, The Business of America is Business)
6. Andrew Mellon (Cut Taxes!)
7. Rotten Core of the 1920s: Farm Foreclosures, Consumer Economy
8. Stock Market Crash, Unregulated, Pools, Margin Buying Black Thursday, Black Tuesday
9. Herbert Hoover: Rugged Individualism, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Boulder Dam, RFC
10. Unemployment: Officially 25%
11. Soup Kitchens, Bread Lines, Hoovervilles, Bonus Marchers
12. FDR: Born Rich (Old Dutch Money) Disabled (polio) but nobody knew it. Progressive.
13. New Deal and the “Forgotten Man”
14. John Maynard Keynes v. FI Hayak (approaches to the economy)
15. Eleanor Roosevelt = Conscience of the New Deal
16. Francis Perkins
17. Harry Hopkins
18. Cordell Hull
19. Brain Trust
20. First 100 Days
21. Harold Ickes
22. Three Rs
23. Bank Holiday
24. Dust Bowl
25. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
26. Court Packing Plan
27. Indian Reorganization Act
28. Critics of the Left: Huey Long, Dr. Townsend
29. Critics of the Right: Al Smith, Father Coughlin
30. Increased Taxes (to pay for it)
31. Second New Deal
32. End of the New Deal
PROGRAMS: Explain Purpose and Effectiveness
“ALPHABET SOUP”
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Civil Works Administration
(CWA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC )
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Glass-Steagall Act
(FDIC)
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA & NRA) Blue Eagle
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Social Security Act
(SS)
Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
Wagner Act
(NLRB—National Labor Relations Board)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)